Steampunk Musha: Tori-Onnanoko

In an ancient dungeon modernized for use as an insane asylum, dark secrets lurk around every corner. Patients are disappearing under suspicious circumstances, and no one -- not the nurses, not the thuggish orderlies, and not the mysterious gaijin director -- wants to talk about it. But you've got a missing young girl to find for a powerful politician, and neither the asylum staff nor the building's horrible secrets are going to get in your way.

Tori-Onnanoko is an adventure for Steampunk Musha, the "Victoriental Adventures" companion to Iron Gauntlets.

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